The Repository
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The North American Sundial Society makes available a treasure trove of dialing material on a single DVD, including The Compendium back issues from the first 27 years of NASS. Click on Product Details to find what else is in The Repository. Nearly 800 MB of dialing resources. Upon payment, you will receive an email confirmation that your DVD has been shipped. No additional shipping cost.
The Repository containes nearly 800 MB of dialing resources. Most important is the collection of 27 years (108 issues) of The Compendium with the history of sundials, dial construction and useful mathematics, as well as a wide variety of articles on sundial topics. Have your own copy of the NASS Sundial Registry with 1000+ sundials that provides sundial location, brief description, and many photos of the dials. Of course you can always go online to https://sundials.org for the latest sundial entries. You can check the Aked/Severino Gnomonics Bibliography with over 10,000 works cited. Cut out your own Serle Ruler for measuring the dial face and gnomon angles.
Also included are:
- Sciatheric Notes - 1: A collection of Fred Sawyer’s articles that appeared in the Bulletin of The British Sundial Society in the years 1991 to 1997. The book contains a brief introduction and review of the articles by Fred and a foreword by Charles K. Aked. Charles observes: “These articles are of real importance in the published work on dialling and essential reading for all who wish a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of dialling.... It is an honour to prepare a Foreword to this jewel of a collection of articles.”
- Dialling Universal by George Serle - A NASS edition of this 1657 book - the first to introduce a comprehensive set of dialing scales on a ruler. The booklet was edited and annotated by Fred Sawyer, and it introduces what James Ferguson called "…the easiest of all mechanical methods, and by much the best." The book itself serves both as an instruction manual and as a discussion on the theory of dialing scales.
- Cyclopædic Diallist - The comprehensive treatise on dialing by Henry Meikle which appeared in the Eighth Edition (1852-1860) of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The work is augmented by excerpts from the work of Hugh Godfray in the Ninth Edition (1875-1879), and further augmented by extracts from a lecture (1770) by James Ferguson. This compilation is presented here for the first time with annotation, modern mathematical formulation and additional material by Fred Sawyer.
- Dialing Software - The digital bonuses that NASS has distributed with The Compendium, as well as some new material. Some of the more significant programs include Zonwvlak 2000 (with a manual and a full discussion of equations), The Dialist's Companion (DOS-based), Ferrari's Sund98p, Blateyron's freeware program Shadows, Sonderegger's Sonne, and Casalegno’s Orologi Solari.
And much more.
Upon payment, you will receive an email confirmation that your DVD has been shipped.